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What exactly do you like? Front 3 ok, but defensive mids, and our back line together with a young inexperienced keeper up against the runaway leaders. What exactly do you? The youth getting a go, or the actual lineup has a chance of a win?

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What exactly do you like? Front 3 ok, but defensive mids, and our back line together with a young inexperienced keeper up against the runaway leaders. What exactly do you? The youth getting a go, or the actual lineup has a chance of a win?

it doesnt matter who we play we have zero chance but i like some young talented players getting a go, riera has been useless so i am glad he didnt make the trip, janjetovic has made too many mistakes and i am glad he is having a rest for a younger keeper, i mean look at most of our squad its not like we have tonnes of talent in there

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What exactly do you like? Front 3 ok, but defensive mids, and our back line together with a young inexperienced keeper up against the runaway leaders. What exactly do you? The youth getting a go, or the actual lineup has a chance of a win?

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What exactly do you like? Front 3 ok, but defensive mids, and our back line together with a young inexperienced keeper up against the runaway leaders. What exactly do you? The youth getting a go, or the actual lineup has a chance of a win?

We don't have a lineup that has a chance of winning.

Their bench attackers are better than our currently available starters.

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it doesnt matter who we play we have zero chance but i like some young talented players getting a go, riera has been useless so i am glad he didnt make the trip, janjetovic has made too many mistakes and i am glad he is having a rest for a younger keeper, i mean look at most of our squad its not like we have tonnes of talent in there

Ok, yeah Im glad youth is getting a go. The senior squad clearly isn’t good enough. Would like them to get blooded one by one like Babbel is doing rather all at once, even if our senior guys are rubbish it really can destroy a young kids confidence being thrown in together with other kids and copping a drubbing.

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Ok, yeah Im glad youth is getting a go. The senior squad clearly isn’t good enough. Would like them to get blooded one by one like Babbel is doing rather all at once, even if our senior guys are rubbish it really can destroy a young kids confidence being thrown in together with other kids and copping a drubbing.

that is a good point confidence is such an important thing in football so hopefully that doesnt happen, overall i think it will be a good learning experience but only time will tell

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Tass has been in and around the first team already anyway, clearly Babbel has realised that we can't play Tarek in central defence again, we've only got 3 central defenders now that Tongyik is gone, so when Ziggy gets hurt, the choice is either play Tarek at CB again (which because Llorente is being frozen out will mean two young players at both fullback positions), or just play our 3rd central defender.

Llorente is a liability defensively so there's no point playing him at all, so he introduced Russel now that Risdon is out of the country. Nizic showed he's useless in the FFA Cup, and since Vedran can't seem to go two games without making a calamitous error, Suman is getting another shot. Majok has been rotated a few times into the attacking lineup, and now we've got Cordier on the bench as the sub fullback.

Tokich & Grozos were both floating around the midfield roles but they had some injuries, and Baccus/O'Doherty has probably been the better of all the parts of our team. But they will probably get more games later in the season. John Roberts & Majok might get more time in attack depending on how Bridge comes back into the side and how long Riera & ABJ are out for.

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While other teams have marquees, quality visa players It just occurred to me we will field a team tonight with no marquee and only one visa player in the entire squad! Bonevacia. Surely that has to be a competition record? Only one visa player in the entire match day squad. God help us

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While other teams have marquees, quality visa players It just occurred to me we will field a team tonight with no marquee and only one visa player in the entire squad! Bonevacia. Surely that has to be a competition record? Only one visa player in the entire match day squad. God help us

We'd have to be fielding one of the cheapest on field starting team line-ups in a-league history.

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I’m being deliberately naive but the current cap system which is in place is broken. It doesn’t balance out the league. You already see SFC and MV exploiting it and CCM scraping the bottom of the barrel. This is already when we have a cap floor of 10%.
If City wanted to spent more money within the current cap system to win the league they could. They even tried with the Cahill rule where they essentially had 3 marquees. Frankly, the HAL is much lower in their pecking order and they would rather spend on their MLS, JLeague or CSL investments first before us.
I get the need to provide some balance so clubs can’t simply buy out the comp but this is when transfer fees and foreign player restrictions come in. If CCM unearthed a great young player and City wanted to buy them out for next year, having to pay a transfer fee will help CCM financially and it would a fair trade for both clubs. You can even introduce a tax so the FFA get a cut.
I just don’t like the cap because it isn’t doing what it is intended and it perpetuates a falsehood that the HAL is balanced.